Warwick maths offer 2011

What offers did you get and by who were you rejected? And also what were your predictions? It just makes me to see how high maths offers are compared to the other sciences where you usually just need an 'A' in the science (Physics, Biology or Chemistry) and need 2 B's, even at top unis.

They don't count General Studies anyway do they?

My predictions were A*A*A*A*Aa and Durham, LSE, Cambridge rejections. Got into Bristol though (y).

York accepted General Studies, other then that - no.

Is it only Maths, that Alot of Uni's have upped their offer for? - Not Fair

OMG you just scared me. Durham rejected....you?!

Damn.

But you got into Bristol!

I think generally quite a lot of courses have upped their offers but I think maths has been one of the most affected subjects in terms of grade inflation.

Could it because Mathematics students are very clever + More applicants apply for Mathematics rather than other degrees.

My predictions didn't carry much weight because my maths teacher predicted everyone with A*A* (even people with Es), though.

Which tallies with the forum this year and past 10 years of Merit = 2. A Distinction in AEA is either 1 or S in STEP, that's just reality.

Maybe Warwick don't really care much about AEA or STEP relative difficulty, but need to manage the number of entrants on to an oversubscribed course so that they stop going way over their on campus accommodation quota, as well as increasing their student:staff ratio. just a thought...

Putting the offer requirements up is the only way to do that other than interviewing and spending a **** load of money on that.

They're building 500 extra places on campus for 2011. I'm guessing that means an extra 20-30 places for new maths students next year. I expect Warwick to undershoot their increased quota for next year, unless the number of applicants has risen by a couple of hundred in the past 2 years. It will be interesting to see the number of applications/new students in the Maths dept for 2010 entry.

I'm not lying but people applying this year for maths are getting screwed with. Nearly every uni for maths have upped their requirements!

Some examples:

Warwick- 2010: AAA 1/M 2011: A*A*A 1/D OR A*AA 2

Durham- 2010: AAB 2011: A*AA

Bristol- 2010: AAB 2011: AAA

Bath- 2010: AAB OR AAC 2/M 2011: AAA OR AAB 2/M

Imperial- 2010: AAA (A's in every module) 2011: A*A*A

Soon enough top universities will only be for private school students. The crazy grade requirements and the increasing tuition fees will make COWI Maths unattainable for nearly all comprehensive schoolers.

Soon enough top universities will only be for private school students. The crazy grade requirements and the increasing tuition fees will make COWI Maths unattainable for nearly all comprehensive schoolers.

Soon enough top universities will only be for private school students. The crazy grade requirements and the increasing tuition fees will make COWI Maths unattainable for nearly all comprehensive schoolers.

Soon enough top universities will only be for private school students. The crazy grade requirements and the increasing tuition fees will make COWI Maths unattainable for nearly all comprehensive schoolers.

I actually wanna know how many of the people that go to these top courses are actually from private schools? I doubt a lot of them really are, thinking about it.

Rubbish.

Only a very small minority of students can go to a 'bad' school and get A*A*AA 11 Distinction or whatever. It's extremely rare. A lot of the time they have to self teach themselves the entire Further Maths A-Level as well as prep themselves for AEA and STEP.

Their teachers won't be able to do STEP papers or even AEA.

Most of the students on these top courses will be from private schools. As the grades and fees keep inflating, it'll be more and more. I've seen this already at lesser universities (ranking wise) where the entry grades aren't even all that high (relatively).

People on the this forum might say 'if you're cambridge material you should ...' but it's not really true. The standard cambridge offer used to be AAB 12 and for state schoolers, that was just about attainable, a lot of the time getting 22 and still getting in anyway.